[TechAssist] Re: Sencore

I made good money with my CM2125 Monitor analyser over the years, tho
primarily I'm a TV shop. I am for the most part the only properly
equipped monitor servicer in the county. Most of the TV shops may take
one in, and hope for the check out fee.Or a simple "vertical chip"
repair.
I kinda got talked into their HA2500 Horizontal Analyser. Expensive. But
with all the monitors I saw many with wierd HOT types that I had to
special order and wait, so if I could hook up the 2500 and load test the
flyback area I might save popping several $25.00 HOT's and a months
delay. Good but expensive at around 6 grand as I remember. I ring
yokes,smps transformers, flys,etc.(but the CM2125 rings,too) Makes some
estimates faster and cheaper to produce. The jury's still out on that
one.
I like my  PR570 Powerite II variable isolation transformer. Digital
volt/amp display. That one I really use.
Seems mostly my 100 MHz scope (LG) dual trace and my Fluke meter makes
my salary. 
I do need a good video display/ cross hatch gen. A tech I know uses the
Sencore VP300. Very nice for his service calls when a projo HD set has a
symptom that is only in HD mode, or doing an alignment/ convergence on
an HD he must align in "normal mode" then again in HD. Necessary
nowadays.
But God it's expensive.
Anyone have that VP300 or the newer VP301 with RF?
I'de like first hand critiques!
Used prices?
Phil Bader

Jan Phyl TV Inc
3420 Recker Hwy.
Winter Haven, Fl. 33880
fax: 863-299-8821
(professional. technician calls only)


Hoyt's TV wrote:
> 
> Over the past 40 years I have bought a lot of Sencore equipment and been
> very pleased with it. However I too bought a few I wish I could forget.
> VC93  $3002.60 in July 1991: used it to analyze one VCR repair job. Took
> several hours to do all the hookups to prove what was bad. Got $60 labor for
> the job. Determined that any job I needed it for would cost more than the
> customer was willing to pay. Never used it again on a VCR but I do use the
> audio signal on stereos occasionally.
> 
> Then there was the CB debacle. Bought the analyzers and a B&K scope that was
> capable of seeing the 27mhz (back in '77 most TV scopes didn't go that high
> and Sencore didn't make one) plus a subscription to Sams CB manuals. Five
> years later I had spent $5000 on CB stuff and done less than $1000 in repair
> work. The guys who didn't have the necessary FCC 2nd Phone license, and were
> willing to do the illegal work, got all the jobs. I sold the Sams and the
> equipment to a truck driver from Mississippi who was tired of driving and
> wanted to set up a CB shop at his local truck stop. Got less than $500 for
> it and felt lucky to get that.
> 
> Most useful have been:  VA62, SC61, LC77.\ and the Cricket.
> 
> Russ Hoyt
> Hoyt's TV
> Exeter, NH
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wayne Vanaman" <Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 6:33 PM
> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Sencore
> 
> > Any test equipment needs to be purchased well before it is useless.
> > Sencores VCR analyzer, for example, may have been a gold mine in the early
> > to mid '80s, but by '90 it would have been questionable.
> >
> > I bought a TVA92/VG91 in '94 and it has more than paid for itself in time
> > saved, but if I were looking for one today I wouldn't pay more than a
> couple
> > of hundred dollars.  The way technology is changing they don't have much
> > life left.
> >
> > Wayne Vanaman
> > Omega Electronics
> > 6904 W Fairfield Dr
> > Pensacola, Fl.  32506-3310
> >
> > Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > WWW.PensacolaTVRepair.Com
> >
> > 850-456-5995 voice
> > 850-458-6369 fax
> >
> >
> 
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